I don't know. I'd like to think that I haven't changed that much. Within myself I don't think I've changed.
For a good man fame is always a problem.
With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.
If you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement.
the more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.
Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.
Do you remember when Marilyn Monroe died? Everybody stopped work, and you could see all that day the same expressions on their faces, the same thought: ‘How can a girl with success, fame, youth, money, beauty. . . how could she kill herself?’ Nobody could understand it because those are the things that everybody wants, and they can’t believe that life wasn’t important to Marilyn Monroe, or that her life was elsewhere
I will take a back seat when I know my fame is dipping. I'm not delusional.
Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him.
With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.
Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.
Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship!
I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.
Fame is nothing but an empty name.
The fewer men, the greater share of honor.
Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink.
It's funny how you realize what's important, and it's not fame and money, even though it can be really nice. It's happiness and whatever it takes to make you feel happy.
The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession.
[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war.
One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.